My Plague · Slipknot

159 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-31 and 35, and 18 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
MY PLAGUE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 14 sections: 114 keep time, 20 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-48.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART Y
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesKOYCH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Plague?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Plague hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My Plague?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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